Species Murphitella franklandiensis (Forbes, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helix franklandiensis Forbes, E. 1851. On the Mollusca collected by Mr MacGillivray during the voyage of the Rattlesnake. In, MacGillivray, J. (ed.). Narrative of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley, during the years 1846-1850. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 395 pp. [Dec. 1851] [379].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1859.3.11.4, Frankland and Lizard Is., QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1859.3.11.3 2 specimens, Lizard Island, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Smith, B.J. 1979. Notes on two new species of rhytidid snails from Lizard Is. Nth Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 32: 421-434 [424].
• Helix (Rhytida) beddomei Brazier, J. 1876. Descriptions of thirty-five new species of land shells from New Guinea, Australia, and islands in the Torres Straits, collected during the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 98-113 [Date published July 1876] [98].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C87297 10 specimens, Albany Is., Cape York, QLD; AM C171117 10 specimens (Macleay Museum no. A116), Albany Is., Cape York, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Ponder, W.F. & Stanbury, P.J. 1972. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VI. Mollusca. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 97(1): 42-55 [51].
• Helix (Rhytida) jamesi Brazier, J. 1876. Descriptions of thirty-five new species of land shells from New Guinea, Australia, and islands in the Torres Straits, collected during the Chevert Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 98-113 [Date published July 1876] [99].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C11107 1 specimen, Palm Is., QLD; AM C87293 4 specimens, Palm Is., QLD; whereabouts unknown no number 4 specimens, Palm Is., QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Ponder, W.F. & Stanbury, P.J. 1972. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VI. Mollusca. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 97(1): 42-55 [51].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Smith, B.J. 1979. Notes on two new species of rhytidid snails from Lizard Is. Nth Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 32: 421-434 [422]

 

Generic Combinations

• Murphitella franklandiensis (Forbes, 1851). —
  Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [126, 140, 572]
• Strangesta (Strangesta) franklandiensis (Forbes, 1851). —
  Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Non-marine Mollusca. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 xii 408 pp. [302]

 

Introduction

Murphitella franklandiensis is a comparatively widespread species compared with other north Queenland rhytidids. The populations in the Einasleigh Uplands (Palmerville) may represent a separate species. Animals are grey in colour with white dorsal stripe.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Wet Tropics, W to Palmersville, NE QLD and N to Cape York, FN QLD

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Dry vine thickets, litter-dwelling, predator, rainforest, under logs, under rocks.

 

Diagnosis

Shell very large, yellow with prominent irregular orange-brown radial streaks, subdiscoidal to flat; last whorl very large; protoconch with very weak, low, growth ridges and very fine microspiral striae, teleoconch with upper whorl surface having weak radial growth lines and weak discontinuous spiral striae; umbilicus wide V-shaped to very wide, U-shaped; diameter to 33.5mm.

 

Diagnosis References

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [140]

 

General References

Smith, B.J. 1979. Notes on two new species of rhytidid snails from Lizard Is. Nth Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 32: 421-434 (anatomy, ecology)

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [140]

 

Common Name References

Stanisic, J., Shea, M., Potter, D. & Griffiths, O. 2010. Australian Land Snails. A field guide to eastern Australian species. Mauritius : Bioculture Press Vol. 1 595 pp. [140] (Cape York Carnivorous Snail)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
19-Apr-2012		17-Apr-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)